BPO 3

Collocations

standart phrases

Find a mistake

• She is under high pressure.

• !Someone is under a lot of / considerable pressure!

• I do the living as a PR manager

• make a living = earn money to live

• earn a good living= добре заробляти на життя

CV or Summary?

• CV (curriculum vitae) - in Britain or Europe

  
  

• Summary - the USA

• "put together" e.g.

• I was putting together my CV whole day.

• I managed to dig a niche for myself as a specialist in managing

• I managed to carve a niche for myself as a specialist in managing

• carve a niche = To establish a unique role, usually by excelling in a very specific area.= завоювати (собі) місце

• Those people are making a lot of work

• !do work!

• If we talk about people making work, it means that they create work for other people to do.

• make work= завдавати клопіт

Poll

"make an impression"

• do the impression

• stage the impression

• create the impression

Wear your grey suit to the interview if you want to create a good impression.

Poll

make a protest

• create a protest

• turn a protest

• stage a protest

The students staged a protest against rising tuition fees.

Poll

make a complaint

• stage a complaint

• lodge a complaint

• rustle up a complaint

Several people have lodged a complaint about the receptionist’s rudeness.

Poll

make a meal very quickly

• rustle up a meal

• turn a meal

• coin a meal

It took Sam ten minutes to rustle up a meal.

Poll

make a profit

• coin a profit

• rustle up a profit

• turn a profit

This month our company should turn a profit for the first time.

Poll

make up a new phrase

• coin a phrase

• turn a phrase

• create a phrase

I wonder who coined the term ‘blogging’.

Pronunciation

chaos

хаос

itinerary

маршрут

said

says

choir

хор

doubt

сумніватися